Tag: North Africa

  • Stories within stories: A review of Tahir Shah’s ‘Scorpion Soup’

    Stories within stories: A review of Tahir Shah’s ‘Scorpion Soup’

    Reviewed in this essay: Scorpion Soup, by Tahir Shah. Secretum Mundi Publishing, 2013. Fast on the heels of his eerily timed epic, Timbuctoo, travel writer Tahir Shah delivers a fantastical new work of fiction drawn from the deepest wellsprings of human imagination. Scorpion Soup is a collection of stories-within-stories inspired by the Arabic masterpiece One Thousand and One Nights.…